Definition of Hematoid

1. a. Resembling blood.

Definition of Hematoid

1. Adjective. (biology) Resembling blood. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hematoid

1. resembling blood [adj]

Medical Definition of Hematoid

1. Resembling blood. Origin: haemato-. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hematoid

hematocrits
hematocrya
hematocryal
hematocrystallin
hematocyst
hematocyte
hematocytes
hematocytopenia
hematocyturia
hematoencephalic
hematoencephalic barrier
hematogenesis
hematogenic
hematogenous
hematohiston
hematoid (current term)
hematoidin
hematolite
hematologic
hematological
hematologies
hematologist
hematologists
hematology
hematolysis
hematoma
hematomal
hematomas
hematomata
hematopathologist

Literary usage of Hematoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of surgery v.2: Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative by Samuel David Gross (1872)
"711 affords a good idea of the hematoid form of ... at cba hematoid Variety. 4. COLLOID, MELANOSIS, AND EPITHELIOMA. ..."

2. A System of Surgery: Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative by Samuel David Gross (1859)
"Occasionally a more solid substance is mixed up with the hematoid, as the fibrous, or fibro-cartilaginous, and when this is the case it generally creaks ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1836)
"... second plate of number second represents the transition of scirrhous to mammary sarcoma, of mammary to the medullary, and of the latter to the hematoid, ..."

4. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1854)
"Dr. Bristowe also records the occurrence of "hematoid crystals in a hydatid cyst," p. 166—a fact of considerable interest. ..."

5. Cancer: Its Classification and Remedies by J. W. Bright (1871)
"A tumor may present to the naked eye, the characters of hematoid, be the seat of hemorrhage, affect the communicating lymphatic glands, run, in all respects ..."

6. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"The presence of hematoid compounds of iron in plants. IG GOLA. Roy. Bot. Gardens, Turin. Alii accad. Lincei 24, I, 1239-43(1915).—Earlier work on the nature ..."

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